Robert Loss is an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Philosophy at Columbus College of Art and Design. He is the author of Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). His writing about the intersections of culture, politics, and aesthetics in American literature, comics, and popular music has appeared in Public Books, Ghettoblaster, The Comics Journal, and PopMatters. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and their cat. For more information visit www.nothinghasbeendonebefore.com.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
“A Proper Cynic”: An Interview with Protomartyr’s Joe Casey
Robert Loss speaks to Joe Casey, lead singer of Protomartyr, about the literature that inspires his allusive lyrics....
The Profane Archives of Rock and Pop Writing
On the Library of America’s new anthology of rock music criticism....
Ordinary Life: Greil Marcus, Commonplace Songs, and Commonplace Listening
Greil Marcus offers a perspective that's eclectic and that carves out an everyday space where the art of pop music is still possible....
Scenes of Love and Theft: Bob Dylan, Piracy, and Cultures of Transgression
From Bob Dylan's "Great White Wonder," the first rock 'n' roll bootleg, to "Dell" Glover, patient zero of music piracy....
